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Chapter 8

Harry sat back as the train began to move. Neville across from him, his head resting on his hands, as he looks at the package with curiosity. It does not take long before the youth glares at his brother in spirit.

"Look Harry, are you going to open it or what?"

"I almost...almost don't want to."

"Why?"

"It's from my real father..."

"Then that's all the more reason to see what's in it!" Neville grinned cheekily. Archeron chuckling indulgently. Even Tory looked at what it was with open curiosity. Harry looking at his friend and brother in spirit as well as power thanks to Savitar, he nods his head in anticipation. Cautiously loosens the string, and finds a flowing material falling out, of the bag it was wrapped around. He is admittedly puzzled for a moment, as he picks up in confusion.

"Ooohh it shiny." Simi replied as she fingered it softly. "It super shiny Harry. Can Simi play with it?"

But when a voice neither boy knows actually speaks in awe at what Harry has in his possession. Tory and Archeron puzzled as well from looking at it turn to the one who tells them with awe.

"Blimey! It's an invisibility cloak!"

Turning to find a red headed youth about their age at the door to their compartment, Harry and Neville look at him in confusion. The adults looking at in comtemplation as Simi giggles. The girl standing up, Harry smiles as he allows her to try it out.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I mean look at her." The boy stated, as all but Simi's arms are now visible.

"Akri! I all gone!" Babble emanating from the young demoness who makes a bit of ruckus. They all turn to the boy who is just in awe. "Those are really priceless...say who are you guys anyhow?"

"Harry Potter..."

"Neville Longbottom..."

"I'm Simi! And that's my Akri, and Akra! They supposed to be teaching...what are you teaching again Akri?" She stated as she turned around with a slight clueless expression on her features.

"DADA..." Archeron smiled as he pulled the cloak off the demoness who whines at first. The boy straightening himself now, at the presence of the new teachers, moves to offer hand. "I'm Ron Weasley..." The red headed youth started to say something else with a smile. But he shortly found himself tackled to the floor of their compartment, by two other red headed youths. Twins by the looks of them, two identical faces look up in astonishment at not only where they are.

But what is in the green eyed youth's hands...

"Fred, my good man do you see what I see?" The one on the left said with a grin.

"Why certainly George! A prime Oppurtunity I do say"

"Indeed. Shall we?"

"We shall!" Replied the one on the right who responded with a friendly and yet mischievous smile. Rapidly getting off their younger red head, they each wrap an arm around Harry as they whirl the cloak over them.

Somehow trusting these older boys, Harry finds himself taking part in the first prank of his school year...

Whether he was ready to or not...

Thirty Minutes later...

Harry, Neville and their new found friends the Weasely brothers, were laughing loudly as Fred tells of the prank they had pulled on some fellow students. Tory looking at her sons with disapproval as she promised punishment later. Her and Lily had been talking and she had wondered where the young man's sense of humor had come from. Still it was a harmless one by the sounds of it...

"And then Harry..."

"Bless his heart!"

"Came up with the idea..."

"To have Malfoy, start doing the Can Can!" The twins stated to the younger brother, who had fallen out of his seat laughing. Neville crying tears of joy, as he clutched his stomach was leaning back against the seat. Everyone laughing, it takes a while for them to calm down, before the three brothers look at Harry and Neville with a questioning gaze. Their eyes drifting to the two adults, who look at them with amsued and yet disappointed glances.

"Say..."

"What brings you guys?"

"Here anyway?"

"Transfers?" Both twins ask in unison. Ron nodding his head, in agreement at the need to know. The two dark haired boys, speak freely of their time with Savitar, and the discovery of who their families were thanks to their adoptive father Archeron.

Said man just momentarily looking up as he is also mentioned to be the new DADA. The twins looking at the dark man, and the delicate woman beside him. Somehow think twice about pranking the new man as they do every year. Something within them states to attack this man. Would be a BIIIGGG mistake.

Still, taking most of the trip to Hogwarts to explain the story, only a few others come to join them as they speak. A young bushy brown haired girl named Hermione had gotten curious, as when asked to demonstrate one of the spells they had learned, by Ron. Archeron having given permission for the spell use.

She had been walking by and watched as the two dark haired youths chanted and a barrier of pale blue light surrounded them.

The twins had then been asked to send a couple of hexes their way, and all watched as the barriers not only stopped the magic.

But absorbed it...

That was the beginning of other students, being curious at what the two boys could do.

Joined by three other girls and then a second later two other boys. Harry and Neville found themselves relaxing from nervousness. Maybe school won't be so bad... These others seemed to be decent.

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Hogwarts

Seeing Hogwarts for the first time as they had arrived, both Neville and Harry were in awe of its beauty. The spires from the towers were tall and proud against the wind as the halls of the stone castle seemed to call to both of them with warmth that soothes their souls.

"Harry..." Neville whispered as the magic welcomed him. "Can you feel all that..."

"Yeah Neville I can...Wild Magic...LOTS of Wild Magic..."

"Almost like the island..." Neville grinned as he spots the lake with a mischievous eye. Harry noticing the same thing, the two youths look at one another and grin. Both thinking alike, the two had started to get ready, at that moment, for their first step onto the Hogwarts grounds.

A little bit later, both found themselves in a boat on said lake, floating alongside other boys and girls a few years younger then them. Their stuff sent on ahead with reassurances from the half-giant, Rubeus Hagrid. (According to the Weaselys) The two put their hands in the water to fill it brush against the creatures inside. Tory and Archeron having gone on ahead to the castle to wait for them at this feast.

Thanks to Savitar, Harry looks to Neville who had developed an affinity with most plants and animals of the mystic and normal variety. Despite the protests, from other children, of the supposed myth of a guardian beast underneath, Neville did not withdraw his hand. A grin coming over his features a few moments later, Harry gives his spiritual brother a high five and laughs.

The groundskeeper as well as COMC professor puzzled by this as he looks back from his boat begins to wonder.

Something tells him, that this year is going to be very interesting.

Following a red headed woman, who was waiting for them once they entered the Castle. They learn about the Sorting. And how this hat with a personality according to their friends, reads their minds, their powers, and their personalities to find what best suits them...

Curious to a fault now, they are about to enter with the others, as they follow the red headed woman. But they are stopped by an older man next to a cat, who stops them beside a great door...

"Hold on, if ye be the transfer student, you have to wait, until Dumbledore announces it is time for your sorting."

Nodding their heads in understanding, they wait patiently as the Sorting of a sorts begin. When the last name of Rebecca Wailford is called, and she is sorted into Ravenclaw. The two watch from the shadows, as the man they had met earlier stands from the middle of a group of people at the center table on top of a dais.

"Before we begin, I must introduce two new students. Both of these young men were believed dead, because of a fire that had occurred when they were children. Thanks to the persistence of our Aurors, and the love of those who had taken them in, you new DADA professor and his wife. They were found most recently alive and well. May I present to additions to our Fourth year class, to be sorted...Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom."

Both boys allowed to go in now, they walked down the center of the four tables. Many eyes upon them both, they simply stood radiating confidence and power. To the girls it was mysterious...intriguing...and very likeable.

To those boys, whom they haven't met, there was a mixture of curiosity and fear. Rumors had already spread of that simple chanting spell that they had done on the train.

"Mr. Longbottom, would you please step up and be sorted." The woman they now know as Professor McGonagall asked with a kind smile.

The dark eyed youth nods his head and sits upon the stool. The hat moving and muttering a few things, it takes almost 10 minutes before the hat calls out...

GRYFFINDOR!

As a roar erupts from the table filled with students dressed in red and gold. It takes a moment before they calm down. The twins reprimanded for dancing and chanting, that they had gotten Longbottom, it was now his turn.

Stepping up to the stool, he finds a voice talking to him inside his head.

Hmmmm...much like the Longbottom boy I see. You have the bravery of Gryffindor. The smarts of Ravenclaw...the loyalty of Hufflepuff and the cunning of Slytherin...

"Thank you...could you..."

Yes I will place you with him; Mr. Longbottom requested the same thing. The memories you two share of these Dark Hunters is quite formidable. And according to them, you work best as a team Boy-Who Lived. Therefore...

GRYFFINDOR!

A loud roar once again came from the tables as Harry rushed to join them. A smile as he sat beside Neville and his now fellow dorm mates, Ron, a boy named Seamus, and another youth whose name had not been given yet.

They listened as the announcement of something called the Triwizard Tournament was coming to Hogwarts. All though it had sounded interesting, despite the age limit. When his real father was introduced, to explain more of the rules, Harry found himself looking more at him then listening. Hoping that James would do something...

He never really did...

Disappointment in his features, as looks of pity were given to him by fellow Gryffindors, Neville cheered him up as he winked at him. The twins catching the slyness, bound over to the two youths quicker then Dumbledore announces the arrival of the food.

As Neville explains what he and Harry were going to do tomorrow morning, the twins grinned with happiness as they asked to join in. Mostly because what they suggested sounded incredibly delightful.

The following morning...

The teachers as well as several students were gasping in surprise, disapproval and shock at what greeted them when they looked outside their windows. Four figures, two of which were quite familiar as the Weasely twins, were in the lake. That wasn't really a lake anymore, thanks to the affinity that creatures had for one of the other two figures Neville Longbottom. Archeron and Tory who had come across the scene at the behest of Minerva just laughed at the sight and the faces of those who had never seen this event before.

Harry Potter, the remaining figure, was busy explaining how to stay on board as waves started from the far end of the lake. Thanks to the lake guardian, who was wanting to have fun for a change, they were rising steadily in height. Now as two of the figures on giant pieces of wood paddled out to meet them. They watched as both figures caught the wave and rode the water...

"What in the world are they doing?" A Ravenclaw asked in confusion.

Hermione having passed by, couldn't help but giggle in amusement, as one of the dark haired boys wiped out.

"They're surfing..."